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New Clissett spindleback designs uploaded

4/1/2014

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PictureThe ball feature occasionally seen on Philip
Clissett's spindleback armchairs.
A couple of additional Clissett chair images have just been uploaded to the spindleback chair gallery - they both have arms with the relatively rare ball feature, as in the photograph shown here.

I've also re-ordered the images in the spindleback gallery, hopefully into a sensible sequence that reflects the variety of Philip Clissett's output. I've also expanded the explanatory text. Hope it all makes sense!

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Clissett's workshop and working methods

2/1/2014

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Despite the interest in Philip Clissett over the years, his workshop and tools have been lost. Luckily, we have a couple of photographs taken in the early 20th century, and some memories of his methods collected many years after his death. I've made an attempt to bring all this together in one place in the lastest part of the Clissett biography.

Some of the recorded memories are contradictory, so I've had a go at sorting them out as far as possible. In the end, although you couldn't build a chair based on my text, there may be something there of interest to the modern chairmaker - and it's the nearest thing so far to a historical record of what Clissett actually did.

You can download this new section on the workshop and working methods from the biography page.

As usual, any comments welcome.
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